SPL ‘soap opera’ finally reaches its climax

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IAN McLEOD, the Celtic chief executive, yesterday compared the Scottish Premier League dispute to a soap opera but denied it had had a detrimental effect on the game in Scotland.

The “rebel” ten SPL clubs resigned from the league last summer after the Old Firm scuppered a television deal and since then relations between the two camps have been less than cordial.

But after a meeting yesterday at Hampden Park it was announced that the 12 clubs had finally come to an agreement in principle on several contentious issues such as voting rights, television monies and new media income and